Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you see lorries coming into Darlington from the length and breadth of the country bringing in supplies it is encouraging that local buyers and suppliers are now getting together . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 3 | no , because the point is that Labour has not changed it 's course , which is recognizing that at the heart of it 's policies we have to show that we know the world has changed , and we 've got a message to women , which is that we know that you are essential in your role in the family , but we know you 're also essential in the economy , |
| 4 | Now in the in the first year of business , you 'd be allowed capital allowances on that which is m may well er varies i in the proportion , but just say just say it 's er ten percent , five hundred pounds , actually will you make that four hundred . |
| 5 | THE town of Bolton has just announced it is to make its football idol Nat Lofthouse a freeman of the borough . |
| 6 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 7 | Under the Adoption Act 1976 , a marriage between a child and one who has once adopted it is prohibited , but not a marriage between the adoptee and one of the adopter 's own children . |
| 8 | Samsung has clearly decided it 's make or break time for the company in the UK PC market , launching a completely new range of low cost machines and adding a couple of new laser printers to boot . |
| 9 | Erm and I know one that I do know now said it 's Certainly , she said , it 's only for the money I do it , nothing else . |
| 10 | But nothing has has really changed it 's surely implicit that green field sites will have to be released to meet the justifiable needs for development erm that there are ways clearly to minimize the impact by by first redeveloping the existing sites by by releasing sites in less sensitive locations , or developing sites that have minimal impact on on existing settle settlements or patterns of development un unless in exceptional circumstances there is for example the need for a new settlement . |
| 11 | Incinerators all across the country are being kept busy burning BSE infected cattle as the disease has now reached it 's peak , with 500 cattle a week being slaughtered . |
| 12 | So could you phone up er your office because I cleared the fact that we can pay with this card cos I thought you might look at this and say well look it 's expired . |
| 13 | He says , you know , what do you think and I say well look it 's up to you and I put the question back to him and say well what do you think ? |
| 14 | Siemens Nixdorf is in as bad a way as IBM , and only a couple of years behind Bull , and that simply because the German public sector still has n't realised it 's crazy to pay $50,000 or more per MIPS for computing power . |
| 15 | Now in a sense , it has n't changed it 's form one little bit , it is still a pound it is still currency , it still has purchasing power , the only problem is , it 's just out of your reach , and you ca n't get at it . |
| 16 | It 's hard , I mean it 's , it 's difficult to tell , difficult to decide when the meaning has actually changed it 's a notoriously hard problem , which nobody really knows how to solve in the principle way . |
| 17 | A poet may heartily dislike having to talk about his verse but the knowledge that someone has actually read it is never unwelcome . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll all have to do the same as me and put down the date and see , but if yer want ter know it 's the first of May . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe we 'd better agree it 's an argument no one can win , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd better pray it is , ’ he warned . |
| 21 | I says , ‘ You 'd better believe it 's the wrong club . ’ |
| 22 | The people living here know it 's my place . |
| 23 | See they do n't know it 's to hurt . |
| 24 | Judge McDonnel presiding dismissed the attack as ‘ an arrogant and cowardly assault ’ and scolded Nicholas by saying , ‘ I am old fashioned enough to think it is particularly nasty for a man to strike a woman , especially an athletic man . ’ |
| 25 | Locking beef up in a cold store , paying the storage man to look after it and then paying more to export it is not a sensible use of Community money and it does not reach the farmer . |
| 26 | Turning now to design it is important to answer the question of which damper produces the " best " single-step response from a given system . |
| 27 | For others , bottle feeding still has it 's place . |
| 28 | Maybe for those who know how to kill it 's just like talking to strangers on the tube . |
| 29 | A' sometimes think it 's a sign a' wish movin' oan . ’ |
| 30 | Whether the public will want to keep on swallowing it is another matter . |